03/20/2008

As Long As We're All In the Mode of Expressing Horror At Things People We Basically Agree With Say and Do, This

And this week, which will see the fifth anniversary of the start of the
war, Code Pink plans to "step up the pressure," as its leader Medea
Benjamin said. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Code Pink has a full roster of activities planned for the week,
including: yoga every morning at 8:30; organic potlucks every noon; nightly movies and popcorn; a bike ride around Berkeley on Tuesday; an open-mike musical jam on Wednesday; and a 'send-off' to the Marines on
Friday, when protesters will bring suitcases and pink berets for traveling." How the Bush administration will be able to resist is anyone's guess.

Conservatives occasionally dismiss liberalism as self-obsession, and I generally argue against that because I'm a lefty and I don't think I'm self-obsessed. (He said, in a sentence containing the word "I" four times.) But Code Pink seems to think the only thing necessary to move the world is self-purification. That's nuts. Politics is about convincing people to agree with you.

For the record, I've dealt with crazy-assed people on the left before. Here, for example. And here.